To:G. I. BOKII[1]

Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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ComradeBokii:

Ihave received your telephone message. Absolutely
dissatisfied.[2]

That’snot right.

Youmust investigate the affair in detail and let me
have precise information, and not just “a look and
something”; you say “exaggerated” ... “it is impossible to stop
the stealing altogether” (??!!)

It’snot a report, it’s an outrage.

1)Giveme the names ofallthe persons responsible;

2)describehow the business is organised;

3)listthe casesof stealingall of them, precisely;the time; the amount.

4)Howmanystaffsaltogether?(their rough composition? working records? etc.)

5)Whatmeasures are being specifically takenthereto
stop the stealing?State measures precisely.

6)Givedate of trial and state punishment imposed
there (IV. 1920?)? List all cases of major trials. How many
have been punished?

Informme of your receipt of this and the date offulfilment.[3]

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, C.P.C.

[1]Onthe letter Lenin wrote: “To Fotieva: this is confidential, 
 keep a copy.”—Ed.

[2]OnMay 16, 1921, a worker of Gokhran (State Depository of
Valuables of the R.S.F.S.R.), Y. M. Yurovsky, told Lenin about
cases of theft of valuables at Gokhran. Making a note of this,
Lenin, the same day, instructed a member of the All-Russia Cheka
Collegium, G. I. Bokii, to carry out a strict inquiry.

Ina telephone message on May 23 (in reply to which, the
present letter was written), Bokii alleged that Yurovsky’s
information was highly exaggerated and that measures were being taken
together with the All-Russia Cheka to bring the stealing at
Gokhran down to a minimum. Lenin’s remark on the telephone
message says: “Give me a reminder.”

Leninsubsequently returned to the matter repeatedly (see this
volume, Documents 180, 205, 216 and 221, andLenin Miscellany
XXXVI, pp. 288, 298, 370, 403–05).

[3]OnMay 28, 1921, G. I. Bokii submitted to Lenin a detailed
report about the state of affairs at Gokhran—the personnel,
structure, cases of stealing and a list of court cases at Gokhran. The
report proposed some measures to improve the work and prevent
stealing. On May 29, Lenin sent this report, together with his
covering letter, to Deputy People’s Commissar for Finance,
A. O. Alsky (see this volume, Document 180).